Season Update 1.12: “Hunters Roar”
The Major February Content Update for War Thunder Mobile is now in the game!
In this update, you can expect to see the following:
- Launch of the new season for a long-running event featuring premium vehicles.
- Start of a new season and VIP levels of Battle Pass.
- A new mechanic in the ship campaign — electronic countermeasures (ECM).
- New common vehicles – the German Leopard 2A4 platoon, the American USS Virginia missile cruiser, and three aircraft of the new rank VIII: U.S. F8F-1B, German Fw 190 D-12 and Soviet La-9.
- Bugfixes, changes and much more.
Read more about the changes in the “Hunters Roar” major update in the article below.
New vehicles
Tanks
- Leopard 2A4 Platoon (Rank X)
- Leopard 2A4
- TAM 2C
- Wiesel 1A2
- Gepard
- Premium Platoon PzH 2000HU (Rank VII)
(can be obtained from the Big Trophy container during the “Hunters Roar” event)
- PzH 2000HU
- OF-40
- AUBL/74 HVG
- ZSU-23-4V
- Premium Platoon AMX-50 Foch (Rank VI)
(can be obtained from the Medium Trophy container during the “Hunters Roar” event)
- AMX-50 Foch
- AMX M4
- E.B.R. (1963)
- TPK 6.41
Ships
- Missile cruiser USS Virginia (Rank VI)
- Premium battlecruiser HMS Renown (Rank IV) (can be obtained from the Big Trophy container during the “Hunters Roar” event)
- Premium battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger (Rank III) (can be obtained from the Medium Trophy container during the “Hunters Roar” event)
Aviation
- American F8F-1B fighter (Rank VIII)
- German Fw 190 D-12 fighter (Rank VIII)
- Soviet La-9 fighter (Rank VIII)
- American F7F-3 fighter (Rank VIII) (standard and premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the “Hunters Roar” event)
- Soviet Yak-9UT fighter (Rank VIII) (standard and premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the “Hunters Roar” event)
New mechanics – ECM system
Here is a new mechanic in the ship campaign! The Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) system allows you to effectively counter enemy missiles.
The system is represented in WTM by two types of ECM:
- Lock-on interruption.
- Missile interception.
Lock-on interruption system: interrupts the targeting of enemy missile launchers by silencing the radars of all enemy ships for 15 seconds.
How to use: to activate the system, wait for the indication that your ship is being targeted and press the ECM button.
Important:
- The system doesn't disable missiles that have already been fired;
- The system can interrupt the targeting of several ships at the same time.
Available on the next Rank VI ships:
- Brandenburg, Pr. 1155, HMS Type 23, USS Belknap, USS Truxtun, USS Virginia, JDS Takatsuki
Missile interception system: directly intercepts enemy missiles in the air with jamming. The system's operation time is 5 seconds.
How to use: to activate the system, detect the launch of enemy missiles (visually or via indicators), press the ECM button and point at the marked enemy missiles one by one. If you have successfully intercepted the missiles, their indicator will change color to green and they will change trajectory.
Important:
- If a missile comes too close to your ship, there may not be enough time to change trajectory.
- The system can be used to protect allies.
Available on the next Rank VI ships:
- Hamburg, Bremen, Gnevnyy, Groznyy, HMS Devonshire, JDS Hatsuyuki
Season “Hunters Roar”
Complete the Hunters Roar Season combat missions, earn War Bonds as rewards and unlock trophy containers with valuable prizes for them.
The “Hunters Roar” season will last from February 13th to March 13th, 2025.
You need 40 attempts to get the first jackpot from the Medium Trophy of the Tank Campaign. The second jackpot will be awarded after another 20 attempts.
You will receive a premium AMX-50 Foch Platoon (Rank VI) with a 50% chance in the first jackpot. If you got both main rewards in less than 60 attempts, you will receive 1000 GE as the jackpot.
For the Big Trophy, you'll get a guaranteed premium PzH 2000HU Platoon (Rank VII) in 14 attempts.
You need 40 attempts to get the first jackpot from the Medium Trophy of the Ship Campaign. The second jackpot will be awarded in another 20 attempts.
You will receive the premium battlecruisers SMS Derfflinger (Rank III) with a 50% chance in the first jackpot. If you got both main rewards in less than 60 attempts, you will receive 1000 GE as the jackpot.
For the Big Trophy, you'll get a guaranteed premium battlecruisers HMS Renown (Rank IV) in 14 attempts.
You need 50 attempts to get the jackpot from the Airplane Campaign Medium Trophy.
Only one jackpot from the Medium Trophy can be obtained. The jackpot contains 700 blueprints of the season aircraft (standart version): F7F-3 (Rank VIII) or Yak-9UT (Rank VIII). If you got both main rewards in less than 50 attempts, you will receive 1750 GE as the jackpot.
For the Big Trophy, you'll get a guaranteed jackpot in 14 attempts: 700 blueprints of the season aircraft (standart version): F7F-3 (Rank VIII) or Yak-9UT (Rank VIII).
Ways to get the bonds:
Ways to get the bonds:
- 300 bonds are awarded as a gift with the start of the Season to players of Level 3 or higher of Tank or Ship Campaign or after at least 5 battles in an Aviation Campaign;
- Rewards for completing the tasks of the season of all three campaigns;
- Rewards in the overall progress bar of the season's tasks;
- Campaign ranking awards;
- Battle Pass rewards;
- Reward from Small or Medium Trophies (10 to 300 items);
- Season Offers and Store.
War Bonds and Keys cannot be used in the next season. After the end of the current season, War Bonds and Keys will be automatically used to open the relevant trophies in random campaigns. If you want to get rewards from a certain campaign, you have to use the War Bonds and Keys yourself before the end of the season, until 10:00 (GMT) on March 13th 2025.
The race for vehicles in the Big Trophy container begins a week from today, on February 20th, 2025.
Leaderboards
To get into the campaign leaderboard, you need to fight at least 5 battles using vehicles from the relevant campaign (tank and ship take-offs don't count for access to the airplane campaign).
The rating season ends on March 6th, 2025 at 10:00 (GMT). Rewards will be distributed within a few days after the leaderboards are frozen. It’s important to note that rewards may be given out at different times for different leaderboards.
Battle Pass
Complete special tasks, level up your Battle Pass and receive rewards for your completed steps.
When you purchase the VIP pass, you instantly receive premium camouflages on vehicles from the Medium Trophies of the tank and ship campaigns, for one of the aircraft, as well as automatically completing 10 steps from the Battle Pass lineup. If you have already purchased an upgraded BP, the cost of the VIP pass will be reduced.
The unique camouflages are given when you purchase a VIP pass no matter if you have a vehicle.
Vehicle Optimization
The WTM team regularly optimizes vehicle models and fixes bugs in them. The following vehicle models have been optimized:
- AMX M4
- TPK 6.41
- Falcon
- ИС-2 (1944)
The following bugs in ground vehicle models have been fixed:
- XM 1 Chrysler – tracks were visible on top of the hull when the tank stopped.
- Centurion Mk.5 AVRE – the gun barrel was floating in the air when the gun mantlet cover was torn off.
- M728 CEV – the inner part of the gun mantlet was missing at all graphics settings.
- Type 74 (F) – tracks did not work correctly on low graphics settings.
Sound
- New sounds when reloading ground vehicle guns were created.
- The machine gun reload sounds of ground vehicles were corrected (previously the reload sounds of autocannons were used).
- A bug that caused the sound of large-caliber ground vehicle guns (100 mm and above) to be missing has been fixed.
Other
- Bremen – the crew has been redistributed around the ship, slightly reducing the survivability of the ship.
- Pr. 1155 – the crew has been redistributed around the ship, slightly increasing the survivability of the ship.
- A number of issues that caused graphical artifacts on trees has been fixed.
- A number of issues that could cause black squares on older Mali-G710 and Mali-G710 MC10 drivers has been fixed.
- A number of issues that could cause the game to crash on Motorola Moto G20 and Motorola Moto E40 devices has been fixed.
- The number of Golden Eagles that could drop in one attempt when unlocking Medium and Big Trophies in the Aviation Campaign has been increased.
- A prompt to open the statistics window after a player loses all available vehicles in battle has been added.
- Information about the availability of the ECM system has been added to the cards of ships with at least one type of the ECM system installed:
- Missile interception system.
- Lock-on interruption system.
- New aircraft Match awards have been added:
- Tsunami – Destroyed the most AI water units. If several players have equal number of destroyed targets, the award is given to the one with the biggest score. Can’t be fewer than 18 AI units.
- Rogue wave – Destroyed the most AI ship units. If several players have equal number of destroyed targets, the award is given to the one with the biggest score. Can’t be more than 17 AI units.
- Fiery Arrows – Destroyed N enemy planes with rockets.
- Surprise! – Destroyed an enemy plane with bombs.
- The descriptions of some Match awards have been corrected:
- Mentions of helicopters have been removed from the descriptions;
- Rank does not matter – Destroyed a vehicle of the same type (ground, water, air), whose battle rank is higher than your own by 1-2. This reward can only be obtained once per battle.
Event Announcement
From February 14th to February 18th there will be a “Valentine’s Day” holiday event in the game. The event will begin on Friday during the day.
You can expect to see interesting tasks and nice rewards: silver, a themed avatar, decorator, title, and experience and silver boosters. More details will follow in the news on February 14th, 2025.
We wish you victory and a great experience playing War Thunder Mobile!
